Archive — May 2013

I’ve been an editorial/fine art photographer for 40+ years, but I came to this series by way of sculpture. My father did assemblage art from found materials, similar to Joseph Cornell. When I inevitably started doing the same sort of art, I used technological castoffs—circuit boards, hard drive platters, wire bundles. I would find boards that I liked but didn’t...
Canon U.S.A. today announced it has reached a new lens-manufacturing milestone with the production of its 90-millionth EF-series interchangeable lens for EOS cameras. Canon turned out its 90-millionth lens, an EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM (released in September 2012), on May 23, 2013. The production of interchangeable EF lenses for Canon EOS-series AF (autofocus) single-lens reflex film cameras began in...
My parents gave me a Kodak pocket camera on my 11th birthday, and I never looked back. I enjoy the ability to document activities around the house. I love black and white because of Ansel Adams and the fact that B&W is more pliable. It is much easier to express one emotion through B&W. The tonal quality of B&W is...
We're kicking off Digitalfest week with an awesome giveaway today via the fine people over at Tenba bags! They are giving one lucky winner a Tenba Mini Messenger Bag in the color of your choice. Gizmodo just named the Tenba Mini Messenger bag as "The Best Bag to Carry Your Mirrorless Camera," and we agree! [divider] [space height="20"] Enter to...
Local Utah photographer and Digitalfest keynote speaker, Adam Barker, recently took a big trip to California with the fine folks at Manfrotto to try out their new Befree tripod. Adam spent a week visiting California's iconic photoscapes to put the Befree through the true travel test. Check out his videos below to learn more about the trip and see the...
We love Cliff Mautner. Why? His no-nonsense approach to both photography and education is direct, uncompromising and produces results. And, simply put, his wedding and portrait images ROCK. We asked Cliff to tell us why the PocketWizard AC3 ZoneController plus MiniTT1 (Nikon & Canon) and FlexTT5 (Nikon & Canon) changed the way he shoots – overnight. You may remember Cliff...
This is the second part of Victor Ha's tutorial on creating time-lapse videos! If you missed part 1, be sure to check it out here. You can also view this entire tutorial on his blog, HDSLR Video Shooter. Once you’ve taken the time to capture the files in your time-lapse sequence, there are a variety of different options available that...
Whenever I can spare a little time I try to get out for a few hours and shoot for myself around the city. This is how I make a lot of the imagery from my Everyday series, which has basically evolved into a never-ending stream of experimental work. Shooting in such a casual way is a really important part of...